A transparent mouse prototype

Henry Plain appears to be attempting to sell his collection. This time, a mouse is up for sale ($1,875). It’s a transparent DE-9 mouse (using quadrature encoding), a gimmick commonly used for Apple prototypes in the 1980s.

Posté le 29/11/2017 par

A Power Mac 9700

Seen on eBay (again), a Power Mac 9700. This Mac model, intended to succeed the Power Mac 9600, either utilized a PowerPC G3 CPU or two PowerPC 604e CPUs and integrated six PCI expansion slots. The machine never made it to market, being replaced by the first Power Mac G3. I had previously discussed this model, whose release was canceled around the time of Steve Jobs’ return to Apple.

Posté le 25/11/2017 par

Les meilleures promotions du jour

Sur cette page, je vous mets les promotions du jour. Ce sont celles que je poste de temps en temps sur Twitter, et les liens sont sponsorisés, ce qui me permet d’acheter certains accessoires pour le site. Je mets des liens vers des promotions intéressantes, idéalement des produits que j’ai essayés ou que je connais bien, avec évidemment une orientation vers les nouvelles technologies.

Posté le 25/11/2017 par

Two iPad prototypes

On eBay recently, two iPad prototypes were seen for sale. The first is an iPad Air 2, and the second is a first-generation iPad.

Posté le 21/11/2017 par

Two iPhone prototypes

On eBay recently, there were two iPhone prototypes: an iPhone 6 and a first-generation iPhone.

Posté le 17/11/2017 par

A prototype MacBook battery

From time to time, there’s a wave of prototypes on eBay. This week, I’m going to show you a bit. To start with, something surprising: a battery.

Posté le 14/11/2017 par

Prototypes of Newton

Seen on eBay, Newton prototypes. We often see the transparent model, but not the other two. Two models offer an expansion card that seems to fit a PC Card slot, the last one is connected to a red NuBus card (typically used on prototypes).

Posté le 05/10/2017 par

A prototype of a 40 MHz Quadra 800

Seen on eBay, a prototype of the Quadra 800 – a model dating back to 1993 – with a motherboard validated at 40 MHz whereas the commercial version’s 68040 did not exceed 33 MHz. This motherboard, code-named « Wombat », contains a prototype ROM and 8 MB of RAM. The seller has installed the motherboard in a classic Quadra 800 case and is selling the whole unit for $500.

Posté le 25/08/2017 par

A transparent Macintosh Classic

Seen on a forum, a prototype of a transparent Macintosh Classic. At one point, Apple evidently produced quite a few prototypes of this type, and it’s rather beautiful.

Posté le 31/07/2017 par

When the PowerCD was supposed to be blue

The PowerCD, a portable CD-ROM drive launched by Apple in the early nineties, was originally intended to be blue.

Posté le 27/07/2017 par

A prototype of a white PowerBook

Seen on a forum, by Henry Plain, a prototype of a white PowerBook, at least in part. It somewhat resembles the PowerBook 170 seen at Guillaume Gete’s site at one point. Sometimes referred to, without valid reasons, as « The 10th Anniversary Mac. »

Posté le 25/07/2017 par